Saturday, October 22nd, 2011, City Docks, Elizabeth City, NC

  We chose a good time to leave when the wind had died down and the current was near slack, so our leaving the slip was easy and getting into the slip at the City Docks was easy.  The last farmer’s market was in full swing right at the dock and we picked up some Arkansas Black apples, great cheese, some Scuppermong grape jelly for Geoff for his birthday (not that it will compare with Katja’s homemade grape jelly), and some cinnamon-sugar pecans.

  The talk at the dock was the NW wind and the Albermarle Sound.  One trawler had gone out the Pasquotank River, heard reports of 5’ waves in the Sound, and turned around and came back.  We were wondering if we’d be there another night and one of the Rose Buddies said it might be a few days, and regaled me with stories about how nasty the Sound could be.

  Larry and Lynn printed out a weather report for us and we decided it didn’t sound too bad for the next day.  They took us shopping then we went out to the Logan Rayes Key West Grille for an early supper and told Bahama stories.  They’re staying home this winter but said they’d live vicariously through all of us.  It was wonderful seeing them!